More
difficulties for the standard theory of supernovae and
“neutron stars”—a misbehaving “supernova remnant.”

In the past few decades of space
exploration, we have grown accustomed to seeing certain
words and phrases in the scientific press release. It would
be difficult or impossible to enumerate all of the instances
when space discoveries have been met with shock and
perplexity by mainstream investigators. "This is a complete
surprise"..."This should not be"..."We're not sure"...Given
the confidence with which the cosmological big picture is
presented in scientific media, one would think that such
statements would be rare, but in fact, almost none of the
milestone findings of the space age were expected.

Recently, astronomers announced
the discovery of a "mystery object" that, according to
conventional wisdom, should be a very "young" neutron
star, yet behaves like one that is several million years
old. According to the Space.com report, "Embedded in the
heart of a supernova remnant 10,000 light-years away is a
stellar object the likes of which astronomers have never
seen before in our galaxy. At first glance, the object looks
like a densely packed stellar corpse known as a neutron star
surrounded by a bubble of ejected stellar material, exactly
what would be expected in the wake of a supernova
explosion.”

But astronomers observed the
star for just over 24 hours with the European Space Agency’s
XMM Newton X-ray satellite, and were stunned by what they
saw. Its emission cycles were tens of thousands of times
longer than theory had postulated for “a freshly created
neutron star.”

"The behavior we see is
especially puzzling in view of its young age, less than
2,000 years," said study leader Andrea De Luca of the
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Milan. "For
years we have had a sense that the object is different, but
we never knew how different until now," De Luca said.

Neutron stars are claimed to be
the remnants of massive stars – bloated red supergiants --
that have collapsed after the expiration of their "nuclear
furnace,” resulting in a supernova. This event is said to
explain the pulsar remnant of some supernovae. Pulsars
exhibit bursts of radiation up to thousands of times a
second. To account for this, astronomers imagined a
super-collapsed stellar object, spun up by the collapse like
a skater pulling in his or her arms, emitting a rotating
beam of x-rays spinning like the beam of a lighthouse up to
thousands of times per second.

Conventional theory would say
that the offending "neutron star" in this case is spinning
far too slowly for one of its imagined age of a couple of
thousand years. According to Electric Universe proponents,
this kind of contradiction is inevitable in the
investigation of "neutron stars", because they do not
exist. They were a theoretical invention based on a
fundamental misinterpretation of the nature of stars, and
hence of supernovae.

From an Electric Universe point
of view, stars are formed in a plasma “pinch,” one of the
most common features in the observed behavior of electric
currents in plasma. Large magnetic fields have been detected
in galaxies, and these fields indicate that huge electric
currents flow in circuits through the galaxies. In fact,
stars are both sparked and powered by the same electric
currents. Stars behave as electrodes in a galactic glow
discharge.

The EU hypothesis is that
supernovae are not caused when a star loses its "nuclear
furnace" and collapses, but rather they are due to a
catastrophic galactic electric discharge event focused on a
hapless star. And observation in recent years has only
supported this model. For example, supernovae occur with a
periodicity in any given galaxy that highlight their
connectedness via galactic circuits. Stars are not
self-contained sources of energy.

Supernova 1987A was the closest
supernova event since the invention of the telescope. It was
doubly special because the progenitor had been examined
before the explosion. Electrical theorists say it was not a
coincidence that this “best example” violated all the
“rules.” The progenitor was not the expected red supergiant
star, but a BLUE supergiant, perhaps 20 times smaller than a
red supergiant. Moreover, the structure of
Supernova 1987A, with three axially aligned rings and a
string of bright beads forming the equatorial ring, has no
place in the standard model of supernovae. Everything about
this exploding star, however, has direct counterparts in
laboratory experiments with high-energy plasma discharge.
And plasma cosmologists using electric circuit theory have
explained all of the complex features of the pulsing
radiation from supernova remnants without the need for a
hypothetical "super condensed object" like a neutron star.

The question
now is, will astronomers continue to invent more ad hoc
exceptions to a theory already too complicated by
exceptions, or will they pause sufficiently to wonder if a
new perspective is possible on the burgeoning zoo of
supernovae types and odd "neutron stars?"
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Authors David Talbott and Wallace
Thornhill introduce the reader to an age of planetary instability
and earthshaking electrical events in ancient times. If their
hypothesis is correct, it could not fail to alter many paths of
scientific investigation.

Professor
of engineering Donald Scott systematically unravels the myths of the
"Big Bang" cosmology, and he does so without resorting to black
holes, dark matter, dark energy, neutron stars, magnetic
"reconnection", or any other fictions needed to prop up a failed
theory.

In
language designed for scientists and non-scientists alike, authors
Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott show that even the greatest
surprises of the space age are predictable patterns in an electric
universe.